Getting Grip On Adrianople.

New York Times 100 years ago today, October 27, 1912:
Bulgarian Columns Are Moving Fast to Isolate the City.
By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times.
    LONDON, Sunday. Oct. 27.— Beyond the reports of the capture of Uskub no war news of prime importance had reached London up to 2 o'clock this morning.
    The significance of the fall of Uskub may be gauged by the fact that the military experts here, who have been most inclined to favor the Turks, were declaring a few days agro that so long as that town remained in the possession of Fethi Pasha too much attention need not be paid to the Servian successes in Macedonia.
    The fighting at Kumanova, according to details received by the Servian Legation here, was of the most desperate character. The Servians attacked at 1 o'clock on Thursday morning. The Turks were strongly entrenched and the fighting lasted two hours.
    At 6 o'clock in the morning the Servians advanced along the whole line. Their infantry, operating on the open ground, were exposed to the heavy fire of the Turkish artillery, but they continued to advance until victory was won. Again and again they stormed Turkish positions at the point of the bayonet. The Turks finally retired in the afternoon.
    In Thrace the investment of Adrianople proceeds apace. Gen. Ivanoff succeeded in repelling the attacks of the Turkish troops and forcing them to retreat behind the line of fortresses on the west and north fronts of Adrianople in a series of fights during Wednesday and Thursday.
    The General then proceeded to lay siege to the town in order to cut off all communication between Adrianople and Constantinople. He threw his first line north from the Maritza River over Kote, while another line was established on the heights of Havaras toward the Tunja. On the further side of the Tunja the Bulgarians took up a position north of Pravodija. The Bulgarians then directed a heavy fire on Chataldja Heights on the northwest front of Adrianople. Meanwhile a strong Bulgarian column advanced over Pravodija and Gadera in the direction of the Constantinople road, and another column, which advanced along the right bank of the Maritza, succeeded after fierce fighting near Juras and Kujurli in obtaining possession of the heights west of Marash.
    The various columns are now attempting to establish communication with one another. When this is accomplished Adrianople will be isolated. The capture of the Marash, Havaras, and Sufilar forts on the southwest, north, and northeast of Adrianople, respectively, show how successfully the Bulgarian chain of steel is being stretched around the city.